Peter Bloomfield is a British statistician. Bloomfield completed his doctorate at the

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in 1970. His doctoral dissertation, ''Some Problems in the Spectral Analysis of Time Series with Missing Values'', was supervised by David Roxbee Cox. Bloomfield moved to the United States to teach at

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, where from 1979 to 1983, he chaired the Department of Statistics. Bloomfield joined the

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faculty later that year. Upon retirement, he was granted emeritus status. Bloomfield was elected a fellow of the

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in 1976, and to an equivalent honor by the

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in 1993.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bloomfield, Peter Living people Year of birth missing (living people) British statisticians American statisticians North Carolina State University faculty Princeton University faculty Alumni of the University of London Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Fellows of the American Statistical Association